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If we did that people would have to register for another website to have an avatar, and it might put an undue load on a free service. Remember we’re doing close to 2 million pageviews a day here, which would translate to many times that avatar image requests.

I would suggest an option to show avatars on the top of each post, near the post title. But *only* for blogs with multiple authors. Solo bloggers showing up their pretty face everywhere would be annoying, I guess.

Thanks for this new feature and for this excellent blog engine that WordPress is. I’m amazed.

and you not to have different avatars for different “moods”, like one for “Happy” other for angry and so on… After, when someone writes a coment with :-) and :-( they will be automatically shown on the left site of the “Logged in as Rui Martins”…

Avatars that show up in posts are really needed for group blogs ’cause some of the themes don’t display the author name. :-( It would widen the number of themes that could be used for group blogs. Maybe have an option in admin to show the avatar of post author in post—default off since most blogs are single person blogs. Then group blog owners would have the option activating it.

well thats a good idea indeed
just for the ones who put a picture, i mean the other, who dont have avatars, it possible not to have the “?”
(it’s just a suggestion, i don’t mind i think the avatar suff is great)

Also in the tag surfer, everything we write is moved i mean it’s like this :
avatar title
picture
text

Check out a cool avatar platform by the team at Oddcast (www.oddcast.com). You can create animated characters that speak and even follow the mouse movement. Very slick product. Avatars need to be representations of YOU, so shouldn’t it be more than a still shot image? That’s a photo, not a virtual representation. I created my own character through Oddcast, which I can change, edit and even add my own voice or use their text to speech functionality. I recommend using your own voice (through a mic or phone) – much more authentic. Kudos to the guys at WordPress for recognizing the need for virtual avatars. Everyone should have the option to create one of these characters in their dashboard and then have it appear on all comments, etc.

great work on the avatars! I know the perfect place to use them: make them the favicons for people’s blogs! Perhaps this could just work for those who have paid for CSS customization… anyway, it would be totally awesome.